Krebs' Free form/Chaos Thread

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[ramjambunath]

Sadly, considering events today, this isn't far from the truth.

 

[krebs303]

poo muncher woman


"I always see amazing things and knew it was only a matter of time before i was able to get someting spectular on video!!enjoy The Amazing POO MUNCHER WOMAN!!!This is 100% genuine!!"

 

[krebs303]

Corn in The Cooler
a quick and fun way to make a large quantity of corn on the cob. Get a large cooler, throw in the corn and add a couple quarts of boiling water… that’s it. 30 minutes later the corn was cooked perfectly and ready to eat.

 

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Scientists About to Find The Force
If confirmed next week, this will be the biggest news in the history of physics since the birth of the Theory of Relativity: CERN scientists may have already found evidence of the existence of the elusive Higgs boson. THE FORCE, dudes.

A respected scientist from the Cern particle physics laboratory has told the BBC he expects to see "the first glimpse" of the Higgs boson next week.

That would be next Tuesday, when two Large Hadron Collider teams would reveal the results of their research, highlighting ten candidates that show evidence of Higgs. Those ten candidates were found from the remains of about 350 trillion collisions using the ATLAS and CMS detectors.
What's the Higgs boson?

According to most physicists, there's a Higgs field that is everywhere. The elusive Higgs particle would be the carrier of that field, interacting with all the other particles, "sort of the way a Jedi knight in Star Wars is the carrier of the "force", as National Geographic eloquently put it when the Large Hadron Collider was being built. Or like Obi Wan said, "the Force surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together."

 

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Japan's massive earthquake shook satellites out of their orbits
The Tohoku earthquake that devastated parts of Japan last March caused havoc on an unimaginable scale, and now it has been revealed that the shock waves sent through the Earth were actually powerful enough to knock satellites out of their orbits.

 

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CT scan used to recreate legendary Stradivarius violin replicas
Antonio Stradivari's violins are considered the greatest ever made. Rare not only because just 650 out of 1,000 of his violins remain, but also because the tone they emit has never been replicated in other violins. New computer tomography has been used to harmlessly probe an existing Stradivarius to unlock its secrets and replicate it.

 

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Graceful Figures
In 1933, Harvard mathematician George Birkhoff quantified beauty. The basic idea, he said, is that M = O/C, where M is the “aesthetic measure,” O is order, and C is complexity. By elaborating this principle into specific formulas, he decided that the square is the most pleasing polygon and the major triad the most pleasing diatonic chord. Of eight vases he considered, a Ming jar ranked highest, with M = 0.80, and in poetry the opening of Colerige’s “Kubla Khan” received an M rating of 0.83. The same principles can be applied to painting, sculpture, and architecture.

This kind of use of the formula leads at once to certain well known aesthetic maxims:

Unify as far as possible without loss of variety (that is, diminish the complexity C without decrease of the order O).
Achieve variety in so far as possible without loss of unity (that is, increase O without increase of C).
This ‘unity in variety’ must be found in the several parts as well as in the whole (that is, the order and complexity of the parts enter into the order and complexity of the whole).

 

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I Can Has Language Play: Construction of Language and Identity in LOLspeak
Given at the 2011 Australian Linguistics Society annual conference, this 20 minute presentation by Jill Vaughan and Lauren Gawne explores LOLspeak as a form of language play. Very interesting! Berry inturestin!

 

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Alt-Text; apparently, an "American Tradition" is anything that happened to a baby-boomer twice

http://xkcd.com/988/

 

[gregod]

HOLY SH!T!!! i know this guy. he is (was) an evangelical preacher. the summer of my sophomore or junior year in high school i was sent to oklahoma to visit a cousin for the summer because i was caught sneaking out of school to go see bands play at CBGB one too many times. my cousin thought it would be funny to show me some authentic oklahoma culture. he took me to a revival meeting in some small hick town. he and i sat in the back of the church wearing black t-shirts with band names on them. freddie gage started in with his schtick, "all mah frayends are dayed" and seemed to be focusing on the miscreants in the back pews. by the end he was openly talking to us which had everyone looking at us. finally, he walked up the aisle to us told us that we were going to die that night and we needed to accept jesus right now. we just giggled and let him go on and on. i don't know how we got out of there without getting saved. perhaps we were surreptitiously saved because neither of died that night and we are both healthy and hearty to this day.

 

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deja vu. anybody else?

 

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Alt-Text; apparently, an "American Tradition" is anything that happened to a baby-boomer twice

http://xkcd.com/988/

I see Christmas At KMart by Root Boy Slim isn't on the list.
And where's The Kinks Father Christmas?What kind of radio stations compiled this list?

 

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[krebs303]

I will refrain from making jokes about reporters and their tips


Journalist Simon Eroro Agrees To Circumcision To Get Scoop
For some people, a job is just that. Then, there's Simon Eroro, the Papua New Guinea journalist who agreed to be circumcised with bamboo sticks to snag an interview with jungle rebels.

Eroro, who writes for the Post-Courier newspaper in Papua New Guinea, won the award for "best scoop" from the Australian arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Eroro's reporting on the migration of militants from Indonesia to Papua New Guinea was credited with a major border operation.